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		<title>Euro Apocalypse: The Rape of Greece</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi by Eugène Delacroix. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has signalled that Greece will have to give up autonomy over its budget if it is to receive the full backing of the international community for its second €130bn (£109bn) bail-out. —IMF tells Greece it will lose control of budget in return [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=1064&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Tale of Two Acts</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2012 was signed into United States law on December 31, 2011 by President Barack Obama. The Act authorizes $662 million in funding, among other things &#8220;for the defense of the United States and its interests abroad.&#8221; In a signing statement, President Obama described the Act as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=1045&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Apocalypse: The Maximum Fails Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 20:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last third of the Edict, divided into 32 sections, imposed a price ceiling–a maxima–for over a thousand products. These products included various food items (beef, grain, wine, beer, sausages, etc), clothing (shoes, cloaks, etc), freight charges for sea travel, and weekly wages. The highest limit was on one pound of purple-dyed silk, which was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=1036&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Apocalypse: Meet the Technocrats</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 11:59:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mario Monti He served as a European Commissioner from 1995 to 2004, with responsibility for the Internal Market, Services, Customs and Taxation from 1995 to 1999 and then for Competition from 1999 to 2004. Monti has also been Rector and President of Bocconi University in Milan. On 12 November 2011, in the midst of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=1031&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Usury: A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I discovered on the exceedingly excellent website of Project Gutenberg a book, that although written 110 years ago, speaks to the heart of our modern economy problems. The book is called Usury: A Scriptural, Ethical and Economic View by Calvin Elliott. I was surprised by how much my own writings about usury follows his arguments. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=1022&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Apocalypse: Demographic Genocide</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/euro-apocalypse-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 20:44:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the start of the 1960&#8242;s to 1978 the population of Italy was growing at a rate of 0.65% per year. This is not a high rate of growth, but it was reasonable in a developed industrial country. As long as the GDP (as an indicator for the economy) grew by more than that rate [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=996&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Euro Apocalypse: The Life and Times of Angela Merkel</title>
		<link>http://appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/euro-apocalypse-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 23:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five hundred years ago the stone age world that existed in the Americas ended and a new age of European dominance started. Now after five hundred years of European dominance that world, in turn, is coming to an end. I will be charting the revelation of this ending in a series of posts. As I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=978&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>2011 in review</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:01:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 7,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 6 trips to carry that many people. Click here to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=974&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Will Merkozy Succeed Where Charles V, Louis XIV, Napoleon Bonaparte and Adolf Hitler Failed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:39:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a couple of centuries of coma, Europe woke up and the last feudal lord of Europe–Charles V (1500–1558)–tried to unite it As the heir of three of Europe&#8217;s leading dynasties—the House of Habsburg of the Habsburg Monarchy; the House of Valois-Burgundy of the Burgundian Netherlands; and the House of Trastámara of Crown of Castile-León [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=960&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Liberty Bell Rings No More</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the month that the European super-state is facing the abyss, war is fermenting in the Middle East and the super-committee is heading to deadlock. At a time when Egypt, Libya, Syria are in turmoil and warmongers threaten war against Iran. The democratic governments of Europe are being replaced by unelected technocrats with questionable loyalist. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=appliedphilosophy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=2842940&amp;post=950&amp;subd=appliedphilosophy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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